Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis